She also considers the problems that arise when using MUDs. computer fantasy game) may be therapeutic. She presents to us the different ways in which computers affect us, and how it has led us to the now prevalent use of 'cyberspace.' Turkle suggests that assuming different personal identities in a MUD (i.e. In Life on the Screen, Turkle discusses how emerging technology, specifically computers, affect the way we think and see ourselves as humans. The Second Self was received well by critics and was praised for being “a very thorough and ambitious study.”

In The Second Self, she writes about how computers are not tools as much as they are a part of our social and psychological lives, writing that technology 'catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think.” She goes on using Jean Piaget's psychology discourse to discuss how children learn about computers and how this affects their minds.

Her memoir 'Empathy Diaries' received fair critical reviews. She has written several books focusing on the psychology of human relationships with technology, especially in the realm of how people relate to computational objects. She now focuses her research on psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction. She obtained a BA in social studies and later a PhD in sociology and personality psychology at Harvard University. Socializing in an adaptive way.Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has allowed us to satisfy our need for human connection, to socialize with one another and remain Together while Alone. So…in the end…this technology that used to keep us disengaged from one another has actually reengaged us with with one another. And I have even FaceTimed with a local shopkeeper who helped me pick out a gift for my niece along with a few books for myself. I have attended online Happy Hours…family reunions…story time with our grandkids…sales meetings…conferences…speaking engagements. And this same technology that pulled us away from one another is now allowing us to be together – socially. But being social is at the very core of who we are as humans. It is this very same technology that has now become paramount in enabling us to sustain our human connection during this time when we are all forced to be apart. We have been isolating at home due to COVID19.

Now fast forward to today – nine years later after this book was written.

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